Agenda. Any member of the public wish to make a Public Comment on any item seeing none, Public Comment is closed very good commissioners under Department Matters directors announcement. Tim frye the directors report was included in the packets happy to answer any questions seeing none, commissioners review of past meetings. Tim frye Planning Department staff a quick a couple of quick announcements donna i did not have a formal report from the commission i want po to mention one is the departments annual preservation staff retreat is scheduled for the end of october occasionally a couple of commissioners participate either during part of the retreat or the full retreat and well forward you the information on october 27th once we have more information and again youre welcome to participate if you would like to do so and second just a quick announcement that Department Staff commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram nieftsd visited the cal house this morning on the presentation work pr
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Coburn and i ask unanimous consent to speak for at least five minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coburn first of all, id like to spend a few minutes just talking about my colleague and chairman of the Homeland Security and the Government Affairs committee. The last two years has been a real pleasure on my part and grown to have a great friendship with the chairman of the committee. And i can truly say in our committee, we have done a lot of great work. Weve both compromised on a lot of issues to try to move the country forward, and to him i am thankful for that. And i dont think either of us have had to break on any principles that we had to be able to do that. I think its been a model our committees been a model in terms of doing bipartisan bills and bipartis
Defines us as diverse and democratic societies. Finally, i want to take this opportunity to publicly congratulate david on last months stormont house agreement. It is a tribute to the courage and determination of everyone involved, especially the leaders of northern ireland, and the governments of ireland and the United Kingdom. The u. S. Was pleased to play a small role in achieving this agreement. We will keep doing what we need to do to support the Peace Process and the Better Future for the people of northern ireland. Let me turn it over to my good friend, david cameron. Thank you very much, barack and thank you again for welcoming me to the white house. You are a great friend to britain and to me personally. As leaders, we share the same values. As you said, on so many issues we see the world in the same way. Most of the time we speak the same language. [laughter] in the last six years since he became president and in the nearly five since i have been Prime Minister, we faced big
You can also make a comment via social media http twitter. Com cspanwj at. You can also send an email. Record of a 3 of political independence 43 of political independence. Democrats continue to hold a modest edge over republicans 30 226 . Since 2008, the percentage of political independence has steadily climbed from 35 to the current 43 . The recent rise has come at the expense of both parties, but more along democrats than republicans over the last six years. Democratic identification has fallen from 36 to 30 . Republican identification isnt down from 28 in 2008 2 26 last year. You can see this chart at 43 of americans identified as independent. 26 identify as republicans and 30 of democrats. 202748 84,000 is the number four eastern and 202748 8001 four mountain and pacific time zones. Rich will be out here. The partisan divide congress in crisis. There is a chapter on the role of independence in the book. Here is a little bit of what they write. A few fundamentals are important in u
Few sprinkles out there somewhere and for the west and of the bay bridge out toward the snow bridge. Dealing with some adjusted light rain lot significant other foggy conditions and the difference in the ceiling height dealing with low cloud cover along the coastline and hard Cloud Visibility out a look at similar radar. Itll have much aback and but most of that will contink its way east we are seeing snow showers and Sierra Nevada. We maintain dry conditions mostly clause in the afternoon and tomorrow will be a foggy start and then returns as we head into tomorrow night. Weather for the and the weekend hitting an early next week. Try break as it happened tuesday wednesday but with a stronger system heading in our direction talk but the bigger storm estimated under the news this morning top store for a third light of day. Demonstrators going against the grand jury decision not to indict a Police Officer. A chuckle death of art garner protestors the burly force the closure of was the co